Caluromyinae
Subfamily of marsupials
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Caluromyinae is a subfamily of opossums. It includes the extant genera Caluromys and Caluromysiops, as well as the extinct Pachybiotherium. Until recently, the genus Glironia was also included.[2] It has sometimes been classed as a full family, Caluromyidae.[1]
| Caluromyinae[1] Temporal range: | |
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| Bare-tailed Woolly Opossum (Caluromys philander) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Infraclass: | Marsupialia |
| Order: | Didelphimorphia |
| Family: | Didelphidae |
| Subfamily: | Caluromyinae Kirsch, 1977 |
| Type genus | |
| Caluromys J.A. Allen, 1900 | |
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Classification
Classification based on Voss and Jansa (2009)[2]
- Subfamily Caluromyinae
- Genus Caluromys
- Subgenus Caluromys
- Bare-tailed woolly opossum (Caluromys philander)
- Subgenus Mallodelphys
- Derby's woolly opossum (Caluromys derbianus)
- Brown-eared woolly opossum (Caluromys lanatus)
- Subgenus Caluromys
- Genus Caluromysiops
- Black-shouldered opossum (Caluromysiops irrupta)
- Genus †Pachybiotherium
- †Pachybiotherium acclinum
- Genus Caluromys
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